Walter Gropius
German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School
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Walter Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, born in Berlin on 18 May 1883.[1][2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
- Born
- 18 May 1883
- Birthplace
- Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
- Died
- 5 July 1969
- Place of death
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Children
- 2, including Manon
- Practice
- Peter Behrens (1908–1910); The Architects' Collaborative (1945–1969)
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Gropius studied architecture in Munich and Berlin before joining the office of Peter Behrens in 1908.[3] He left the Bauhaus in 1928 and moved to Berlin.[4] Gropius fled Nazi Germany in 1934, first to England and then to the United States in 1937.[5][6] He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1937 until his retirement in 1952.[7][8]
The city of Dessau commissioned Gropius to design its new Bauhaus school building, a project he carried out during 1925–26.[9] United States citizenship was granted to Gropius through naturalization in 1944.[8]
What the cited sources add
A roof-raising ceremony for that house in December 1920 featured a bonfire and choral recitation, signaling the cultural importance of the project.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bauhaus , The Tate Collection, retrieved 18 May 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bauhaus100. Walter Gropius Retrieved 6 February 2017; Olbrich, "Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland", Springer-Verlag, 9 March 2013, p. 197–198; Fehervary, "Anna Seghers, a Writer Who Defended the Wretched of the Earth", jacobin.com, 19 November 2020; "Walter Gropius", Olympedia (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Caves, "Encyclopedia of the City", Routledge, 2004, p. 319; "International Style architecture", Encyclopedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The design geniuses who fled turmoil – BBC Culture", 1 April 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gropius, Walter, 1883–1969. Papers, 1930–1972: A Guide", Harvard University (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "GSAS Residence Halls" . gsas.harvard.edu. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Walter Gropius" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius . Retrieved 3 January 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Architecture", The Getty Research Institute, 10 June 2019. facts only, no text reused. getty.edu
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